568 AMERICAN GAME FISHES. 



A generous supply of rope should be provided in every 

 camping outfit. It will frequently come in demand for vari- 

 ous purposes. Not less than fifty feet each of quarter-inch 

 and half-inch should be provided, in addition to the picket 

 ropes, tent ropes, etc. 



Each man should carry a field-glass. It is one of the 

 greatest luxuries imaginable for a trip on the mountains or 

 plains, and will often come into play in wooded countries. 

 By its aid rocks are often turned into living animals, and 

 vice versa. Elks or bears are often found to be only cattle 

 or horses; and domestic sheep sometimes turn out to be 

 antelopes. A clear pool of water is often transformed into 

 a dry bed of alkali, and a white rock sometimes proves to be 

 a wild goat. The glass is useful in hunting lost horses and 

 in looking out favorable camping grounds. It saves an 

 immense amount of riding and walking, and pays for itself 

 once a week regularly. While you are buying a glass get a 

 good one. It will cost twenty to thirty dollars, but will prove 

 a good investment. 



A good compass is another important item. It should 

 cost two to three dollars, and should be set in a nickel or 

 silver hunting case. 



No man should ever go into the woods or mountains 

 or on the plains without a water-proof match-box. And 

 yet, strange as it seems, there is no such thing in the 

 market. There are several which purport to be water- 

 proof but are not thoroughly so. You can get a surgical- 

 instrument-maker to make one out of a piece of brass tubing, 

 say three-quarters of an inch in diameter and about two and- 

 a-half inches long. 



A convenient and serviceable camp-kettle is made of 

 heavy galvanized iron, and if intended for three or four men 

 should be ten inches in diameter and sixteen inches deep. 

 It should have a -inch wire around the top, a bail of the 

 same size, and heavy malleable iron ears. If built on these 



